He didn't accuse Islam of murderous tendencies, he asked that if you were a muslim that you not kill him.
Like it or not, Muslims are more likely to kill in response to perceived offenses against their religion, and his post makes light of that fact. If you're a moderate muslim and you find that offensive, then you need to do two things: get over it, since free speech is a right in the U.S.A. and therefore you're likely to find offensive speech living here, or on the internet; secondly, you should be decrying the violence promulgated by extremist muslims in the name of Islam. Part of the problem with moderate religionists is that they give cover for the extremists under the umbrella of "respect for religion". If they want their religion to continue getting respect, they need to police their own.
What's your price range? Minimum storage capability? The QNAP TS-509 is ~$900+drives, holds 5 drives, looks reasonably fast, has online RAID migration, and an open OS (linux) with ssh shell access and package support.
I'd probably buy one if I hadn't invested in a new server last year.
Exactly. I tried setting up my new NetBSD server with 4 drives in RAID5. Sucked eggs thru a straw. That's because 4 drives means 3 data blocks and 1 parity block. The filesystem (on NetBSD at least) can only do 2^n block sizes, and since 2 and 3 are relatively prime, you end up with _every_ write being a read-modify-write. It was 10x faster thruput to go to a 3+1 spare setup.
What issues were you seeing with the 3Ware cards? I've got a friend with a 16-port he loves...that server replaced an older one with an 8-port (IIRC). He did see some performance issues with his setup, and 3Ware worked with him and they figured out that it had to do with queue depths for the I/O's and the fix was a simple change to his config.
Well, Software.com was started in the early 90's to sell software over the internet, but the 4 guys who started it consulted to pay the bills before the whole internet thing took off. They were setting up sendmail for someone when they decided that 'they could do it better'. That spawned Post.office a pretty nice mail system that was very easy to configure & run, though not super scalable. They merged with Accordance and created InterMail Mx, a _seriously_ scalable mail server system that would run distributed across a cluster and handle millions of subscribers without breathing hard. So no, we weren't a bunch of fucktards.
But you, posting on Slashdot from your mom's basement, you're another story.
I'm no fan of Phone.com, but they had a similar app years ago. We heard about it via the corporate (!) announcement when we (Software.com) merged with them. I thought it made the company look like a bunch of fucktards, but what do I know.
Given the 'bait-n-switch' move to Windows, the OLPC program has left a bad taste in my mouth. My OLPC sits unused in a pile of electronics gear that 'one of these days' I'll get around to offing on ebay or craigslist.
I liked the idea of it, I liked the technology of it, I really hate the idea of using it to introduce so much of the developing world to Windows. Can you imagine the issues we'll have with the net once the spam/bots manage to hide in the always-on routing chip of an OLPC?
But it has to be administered by the victim of the crime.
That is, if your weak-ass god can kill me, let him do so. But don't you profess to act on his behalf. Is 'he' so weak-ass that he can't act himself? If so, then he deserves no worship.
With 4 drives and raid 6, you get 50% storage and any two drives can fail. With 4 drives and raid 1(x4) (does anything even support 4x1 mirroring?), you get 25% storage and any 3 drives can fail. With 4 drives and raid 1+0 (a stripe of two 2-drive mirrors), you get 50% storage, but if the wrong two drives fail, it takes out the array.
With 8 drives and raid 6, you get 75% storage and any two drives can fail. with 8 drives and raid 1(x8?), you get 12.5% storage and any 7 drives can fail. with 8 drives and raid 1+0, you'd get 50% storage, and still be screwed if the wrong two drives failed.
If they are sub-GHz machines, they are probably older and less power efficient than they could be.
I've got a 1.5GHz system (via C7) with 4 drives and it draws just 75watts. I could probably save another 16 watts by switching to the GreenPower drives from WD, but I'm still waiting for the 1TB drives to come down more.
Of course that's more than the 25 watts my old Cobalt RaQ2+ with 2 drives, but the speed is worth it in my estimation.
I'm turning 41 in a week, and this is the 2nd election I listened to...even in 2000, while I 'listened' enough to make up my mind, I didn't think politics was really important. Even the Florida recount didn't seem to matter that much to me, I figured "how much more then the other one can one of these bozos screw things up?" After 9/11 and the other insane government fuckups of the first Bush administration, I got more involved. I figured there'd be no way 2004 would re-elect Bush, so I didn't donate too much or work too hard. Sure Kerry was wooden, but after the first debate my vote changed from "Anyone but Bush" to "Kerry, the guy who could articulate an intelligent position" (even if he could ramble on for days:)
Now in 2008 I'm working in a local campaign, donating money to Obama and Al Franken.
For an interesting picture about how much having the wrong guy at the top matters, read 'State of Denial'.
If the immunity is unconstitutional, then that provision of the bill can be ignored when voting for or against it. Any unconstitutional provision of a law can be stricken independent of the rest of the law or bill.
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He didn't accuse Islam of murderous tendencies, he asked that if you were a muslim that you not kill him.
Like it or not, Muslims are more likely to kill in response to perceived offenses against their religion, and his post makes light of that fact. If you're a moderate muslim and you find that offensive, then you need to do two things: get over it, since free speech is a right in the U.S.A. and therefore you're likely to find offensive speech living here, or on the internet; secondly, you should be decrying the violence promulgated by extremist muslims in the name of Islam. Part of the problem with moderate religionists is that they give cover for the extremists under the umbrella of "respect for religion". If they want their religion to continue getting respect, they need to police their own.
What's your price range? Minimum storage capability? The QNAP TS-509 is ~$900+drives, holds 5 drives, looks reasonably fast, has online RAID migration, and an open OS (linux) with ssh shell access and package support.
I'd probably buy one if I hadn't invested in a new server last year.
Exactly. I tried setting up my new NetBSD server with 4 drives in RAID5. Sucked eggs thru a straw. That's because 4 drives means 3 data blocks and 1 parity block. The filesystem (on NetBSD at least) can only do 2^n block sizes, and since 2 and 3 are relatively prime, you end up with _every_ write being a read-modify-write. It was 10x faster thruput to go to a 3+1 spare setup.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30549/75/1/2/
The QNAP TS-509 does pretty well.
slashdot apparently also ate the 'e' in 'ate' :-)
What issues were you seeing with the 3Ware cards? I've got a friend with a 16-port he loves...that server replaced an older one with an 8-port (IIRC). He did see some performance issues with his setup, and 3Ware worked with him and they figured out that it had to do with queue depths for the I/O's and the fix was a simple change to his config.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sys/955430088.html
Dual-Core Intel box with 12 SATA drives for 3TB total storage. 3Ware 12-port raid card.
$1000
Since it's for a business, it probably makes sense. For my home, too loud, big & power hungry.
The QNAP TS-509 looks interesting for my home network, but it's expensive and I'm unsure about the software....
I'll be dead.
And if there's life after death, I can haunt the people I want to know I'm dead.
Apparently we've gone from "I am Legend" to "You Are Star Wars"
Well, Software.com was started in the early 90's to sell software over the internet, but the 4 guys who started it consulted to pay the bills before the whole internet thing took off. They were setting up sendmail for someone when they decided that 'they could do it better'. That spawned Post.office a pretty nice mail system that was very easy to configure & run, though not super scalable. They merged with Accordance and created InterMail Mx, a _seriously_ scalable mail server system that would run distributed across a cluster and handle millions of subscribers without breathing hard. So no, we weren't a bunch of fucktards.
But you, posting on Slashdot from your mom's basement, you're another story.
I'm no fan of Phone.com, but they had a similar app years ago. We heard about it via the corporate (!) announcement when we (Software.com) merged with them. I thought it made the company look like a bunch of fucktards, but what do I know.
And, because of your slashdot UID, I have to believe all you say is completely true!
Given the 'bait-n-switch' move to Windows, the OLPC program has left a bad taste in my mouth. My OLPC sits unused in a pile of electronics gear that 'one of these days' I'll get around to offing on ebay or craigslist.
I liked the idea of it, I liked the technology of it, I really hate the idea of using it to introduce so much of the developing world to Windows. Can you imagine the issues we'll have with the net once the spam/bots manage to hide in the always-on routing chip of an OLPC?
Well, you would get attacked by a bunch of bozos on Slashdot...
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They've offered IPv6 for years now:
http://www.sonic.net/features/ipv6/
Did you mean? "heretic"
You GNU emacs losers have to type that, but us xemacs users have it bound by default to the letter 'a'.
We just need to wait until winter when the gorillas freeze...
But it has to be administered by the victim of the crime.
That is, if your weak-ass god can kill me, let him do so. But don't you profess to act on his behalf. Is 'he' so weak-ass that he can't act himself? If so, then he deserves no worship.
With 4 drives and raid 6, you get 50% storage and any two drives can fail.
With 4 drives and raid 1(x4) (does anything even support 4x1 mirroring?), you get 25% storage and any 3 drives can fail.
With 4 drives and raid 1+0 (a stripe of two 2-drive mirrors), you get 50% storage, but if the wrong two drives fail, it takes out the array.
With 8 drives and raid 6, you get 75% storage and any two drives can fail.
with 8 drives and raid 1(x8?), you get 12.5% storage and any 7 drives can fail.
with 8 drives and raid 1+0, you'd get 50% storage, and still be screwed if the wrong two drives failed.
If they are sub-GHz machines, they are probably older and less power efficient than they could be.
I've got a 1.5GHz system (via C7) with 4 drives and it draws just 75watts. I could probably save another 16 watts by switching to the GreenPower drives from WD, but I'm still waiting for the 1TB drives to come down more.
Of course that's more than the 25 watts my old Cobalt RaQ2+ with 2 drives, but the speed is worth it in my estimation.
And shotgun shells I hope...
We've only got about 1000 rounds of 9mm and probably a couple of boxes of shotgun shells...time to stock up again.
Yeah, a typo @ 6:29 am (pre-coffee) in a slashdot posting really marks me as a moron....well maybe, but not as much as replying to an AC I guess...
I'm turning 41 in a week, and this is the 2nd election I listened to...even in 2000, while I 'listened' enough to make up my mind, I didn't think politics was really important. Even the Florida recount didn't seem to matter that much to me, I figured "how much more then the other one can one of these bozos screw things up?" After 9/11 and the other insane government fuckups of the first Bush administration, I got more involved. I figured there'd be no way 2004 would re-elect Bush, so I didn't donate too much or work too hard. Sure Kerry was wooden, but after the first debate my vote changed from "Anyone but Bush" to "Kerry, the guy who could articulate an intelligent position" (even if he could ramble on for days :)
Now in 2008 I'm working in a local campaign, donating money to Obama and Al Franken.
For an interesting picture about how much having the wrong guy at the top matters, read 'State of Denial'.
If the immunity is unconstitutional, then that provision of the bill can be ignored when voting for or against it. Any unconstitutional provision of a law can be stricken independent of the rest of the law or bill.